Sunday Morning at the Centre of The World
From: Tuesday, 22nd March 2011
To: Saturday, 16 April 2011
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Synopsis
Influenced by Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, Louis de Bernieres chose to celebrate his experience of life in South London living above a small shop by writing about the people he knew and came to love in his time there - brilliantly capturing the myriad voices of modern Britain. This play was first broadcast on BBC radio in 1998.
Our Review:
Nancy Groves - 28 March 2011
How do you go about reviewing a show you've not actually seen? This isn't an ethical question, but a pragmatic one. As readers may know from the pre-publicity for Southwark Playhouse's Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World, half the audience are blindfolded for its 60 minute duration, the other half left to enjoy the 'performance within a performance' that results.
Acclimatised to such swaddling by Dutch company Ontoroed Goed at the BAC's "One-on-One Festival" (returning this week), I choose to go blind here too in the hopes of experiencing the impact of Bad Physics' multi-sensory take on Louis de Bernieres' 2001 "play for voices".
Originally written for radio, it's essentially Under Milk Wood relocated from Llareggub to Earlsfield, with south London shown up to be as villagey as south Wales through a series of Thomasesque character sketches. Here are the yuppies and the junkies, the school-kids and the OAPs, getting right up each ot...
Cast
Panny Skrivanos
Jade Willis
Christopher Hammond
Mark Conway
James French
Avita Jay
Georgina Landau
Danielle Nott
Creative
Louis de Bernieres (Author)
Bad Physics (in association with London Theatre Academy) (Producer)
Amy Draper (Director)
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